List List List

2020-04-19T13:35:00.000-07:00

Tell me what kind of list to make and I will make it. It can be about anything you want! Dooo it!

Eight Random Questions

2010-01-06T08:32:00.000-08:00

1 .Where is the strangest place you've ever fallen asleep?

I've tried falling asleep in an elevator in a train station in Verona, but we were kicked out before we had a chance. I might have dozed on and off afterwards, sitting on the concrete. Can't say that I have fallen asleep while driving, either. Boooring. I did fall asleep in the IRC once at UMBC the night before Zaira, our spanish friend, was scheduled to return to Spain. But the strangest places I've ever fell asleep were always other people's homes.

2.Who is the last person you spoke to on the phone?

Two days ago I called the Customer Service department of InterAmerican Products to find out if their "Ralphs" brand oats are gluten-free. They're not. Shame, shame.

3. What are your summer plans?

This summer, I plan to walk around the world in 30 days.

I cannot or will not plan that far ahead. At this point. Ask me later.

4. What was your first pet?

I am harboring a small tapeworm in my intestinal tract at the moment. His name is Walton Peston and he is about to die. But my first pet, ever, was a fish, or several fish, who consumed each other (I assume).

5. What did you have for breakfast?

Green tea and leftovers of baby greens, cheese, mushrooms, and vinegar.

6. If you could eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?

What a torturous question.

7. If you could trade lives with any person for one day, who would it be and why?

Just one day? Well, that's not so bad (or good. Whichever). Ummmmm, it's just too weird to think about having someone else's body.

8. Do you collect anything?

Yes. I collect varying things to a varying degree at varying times. Sheets of paper, magazine pictures, pieces of fabric, writing utensils, documents, websites, digital photographs, containers, rulers, analog clocks (so far I have just one), plant parts, etc. I may be clinically insane, but completely undiagnosed.

Things I Can't and Can Do

2009-11-17T18:52:00.000-08:00

from What Color is Your Parachute. I'm supposed to make two columns and place the words from the image in the corresponding column.

Things I Can't Do

advising

completing

explaining

overseeing

supervising

writing

verbalizing

coaching

counseling

memorizing

leading

financing

Things I Can Do

questioning

repairing

observing

making

sewing

investigating

sorting

learning

proofreading

reasoning

helping

examining

assembling

designing

detailing

judging

experimenting

innovating

Stuff They Should Have at Airports

2009-11-14T19:33:00.000-08:00

1. shooting range

2. yoga classes

3. knitting lounge

4. playground

5. a gym with a pool and sauna with complimentary towels and soap

6. chess lounge

7. movie theater

8. speed-dating

9. sleeping-pod rental (like the ones in Japan)

10. a trampoline

11. balloon animals

12. a kitchen

13. a seamster/seamstress

14. a hair salon

15. a botanical garden

16. an off-leash dog park

17. doctors (animal, human, and alien)

18. Girl Scout cookies

19. free hugs from Elmo

20. computer repair

Writing Exercises to Eventually Do

2009-11-02T22:44:00.001-08:00

Story starters

1. I could have avoided the whole bloody business if I had only . . .

2. The people at number 10 . . .

3. While shopping the other day, I'll be darned if I didn't come across . .

4. Every morning a crow comes and sits at my window. . .

Other stuff

1. Write a one-hundred word story using only one-syllable words.

2. Write a story that starts and ends with the same line.

3. What's in your fridge?

4. Write a story from an “odd news” headline.

5. Write a story revolving around a song title.

A List of Plants I Would Like To Grow

2009-10-25T23:16:00.000-07:00

purely utilitarian

1. Philodendron - removes formaldehyde

2. Spider Plant - removes formaldehyde

3. Golden Pothos - removes formaldehyde

4. Gerbera Daisy - removes benzene

5. Chrysanthemum - removes benzene

6. Dracaena - removes crying children

7. Spathiphyllum - removes evil spirits

8. Parlor Palm - removes dirt

9. Bamboo Palm - looks almost the same as the Parlor Palm, doesn't it?

quick list of some more air-cleaning plants before we look at the cool ones

10. Boston Fern

11. Dwarf Date Palm

12. Weeping Fig

13. Corn

14. Areca Palm - maybe be the same as the previous palms listed. Who knows?

15. Lady Palm

16. Elephant Ear Philodendron

the cool plants

17. Croton

18. Pitcher Plants

19. Rafflesia - Literally smells like rotting meat in order to attract insects. Blooms for only a few days every couple of years. I painted a tropical textile design based on it in school once.

20. Succulent Pizza - a combination of colored pebbles and succulents

21. Green-Flowered Hedgehog Cactus

22. Any Succulents - Preferably in various combinations. Aren't they great?

23. Hens and Chicks - another succulent

24. Terrariums - These are by Paula Hayes from http://paulahayes.com. She also has living necklaces, bird projects, and more.

more to come!!!

Podcasts I Listen To

2009-10-25T23:04:00.000-07:00

1. This American Life with Ira Glass

2. National Geographic Weekend

3. The Moth Podcast - thanks to my friend Sun for enlightening me

4. The Story with Dick Gordon

5. Fresh Air with Terry Gross

6. On Science - Although I wish they were longer than 15 minutes. How can you possibly discuss heart cell regeneration or how the brain perceives "God" in 15 minutes?

7. Wait Wait Don't Tell Me (The NPR Newsquiz)

8. Scientific American

9. The Kojo Nnamdi Show: Computer Guys & Gal - yeah, maybe I'm a dork, but they're funny

Favorite Designers

2009-10-19T11:48:00.000-07:00

1. Kenzo - mixtures of patterns and fabrics

2. Matthew Williamson

3. Cakewalk - children's

4. Basso & Brooke - delicious detailed digitally printed fabric

5. Rodarte

6. Diane von Furstenberg

7. Alabama Chanin - denim, hand embroidery

8. Marc Jacobs

9. John Galliano

10. Denis Simachev

11. Andrew Mackenzie

12. Enrico Coveri

13. Romain Kremer

14. Cassette Playa

15. Hale Bob

16. Etro

17. Dangered

18. Jonathan Saunders

Songs About Los Angeles

2009-05-12T21:02:00.000-07:00

1. the weather 'Every Day is Exactly the Same' by Nine Inch Nails, pretty much

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Things I Don't Like

2009-05-07T16:47:00.000-07:00

1. lint, that's why I've decided not to hang my clothes out to air-dry (and the time and wrinkles thing)
2. long nails

Note that anything that's not on this list I probably like, therefore, the list of things I like is much longer (plus whatever I already put on my post about things I like). Unless there are things that I'm on the fence about or don't care either way. Those can just go on the list of things I do like. So, no matter how long I make the list of things that I don't like, my list of things I do like will always be longer. That means I'm awesome.

A Party in My Mouth

2009-05-04T10:48:00.000-07:00

1. hardboiled egg and fresh tomato

2. pizza but with barbecue sauce instead of tomato sauce - MUCH better!

3. tiramisu - even the vegan version is awesome. Try this recipe.

4. apples with peanut butter

5. cornish hens - Good no matter how u make them. You could slather them in benzene and they would taste delicious. And I'm picky about meat.

6. quince paste with cheese

7. brie wrapped in puff pastry, sprinkled with slivered almonds and honey and baked

8. hazelnut gelato

9. whole wheat bread topped with thin slices of butter and drizzled with honey - surprisingly cheap and unhealthy dessert

10. lagman - the way mommy makes it, thin pasta and cubed potatoes with a tomatoey sauce/broth

11. sashimi over rice

12. mashed potato stuffed inside a really fattening oily dough pastry - it's russian

13. croissants

14. croissants with cheese

15. well-made doughnuts

16. fresh mozzarella cheese with cucumbers and tomatoes

17. matar paneer

18. another indian dish I once had in the middle of nowhere least expected place on our roadtrip to California - it was orange

19. grilled eggplant

20. a good burger - Not too big, with high quality ingredients, not spilling out of itself. And make sure to balance it out with veggies, just like your mother taught you.

21. peas

22. green beans

23. baked salmon with a tad of soy sauce and garlic

24. almond-stuffed olives

...add your own!

My Favorite Words

2009-04-30T14:37:00.000-07:00

1. Croton
2. Obliterate
3. Riparian
4. Snappy "Make it snappy!"

5. Salubrious

6. Subterfuge

7. Vacuous

8. Plucky

Things to Do When It's Raining

2009-04-26T13:49:00.000-07:00

1. collect the water to reuse
2. go outside with some soap to shower
3. cook a nice meal with your family and friends
4. go swimming outside (that way you won't care that it's raining, you'll be wet already)
5. have a party
6. make a worm compost bin and place previous event's leftovers inside. feel good.

7. count the raindrops

8. eat some cheesecake

Sites to Submit Artwork To

2009-04-24T16:51:00.000-07:00

Films I Want to See

2009-04-24T15:02:00.000-07:00

In no particular order.

Waltz with Bashir (animated)
Rachel Getting Married
Kitt Kittredge
Fears of the Dark (animated)
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

more coming

Things I Like

2009-04-24T11:44:00.000-07:00

handmade journals (I would use them mostly for leaving notes for people or for taking down my own notes when I get an idea)
pens of different colors, pencils, markers, jelly-roll-type pens. like this

I like pens with retractable tips and pencils that are mechanical. I like them in crazy designs and colors. i also like ones that write well, so I can sketch and doodle. I like glow-in-the-dark pens and flourescent ones, too. Where are the yellow pens that you can barely see on white paper?
3. owls, they kind of remind me of people
4. succulent terrariums
5. illustrations

Miroslav Sasek

Charley Harper

Erte

6. poppies
7. tulips
8. insides of blueberry crowns

9. terrariums

10. baskets

Life Goals

2009-04-19T20:23:00.000-07:00

Short Term (week/month/quarter)
1. be more creative
2. sketch more often
3. create more art
4. read more often
5. stop procrastinating
6. talk to more people more often and for longer
7. go out more
8. finish knitting that sweater that I started knitting a year ago
9. make a paper mache deer head
10. visit the CA Science Center
11. get an internship
12. write more
13. exercise more (yoga)
14. design business card
15. eat more fruits and vegetables
16. have a better memory
17. be more witty
18. put my work up online
19. be more polite to people I don’t know
20. learn krav maga (self defense system which has no rules)

Mid Term (5 years)
1. take a trapeze class
2. see another show of Cirque du Soleil
3. go sandboarding
4. visit Catalina Island
5. live in a sustainable intentional community
6. design some wallpaper
7. design a set of playing cards
8. knit six more sweaters
9. work no more than 40 hours per week
10. career would involve a good balance of sitting at computer, moving around and interacting
11. travel a lot
12. sew a shirt
13. design informational posters, like: “How to brush your teeth” or “How to change your tires”.
14. go rock climbing (indoors)
15. pay off my loans
16. leave no carbon footprint
17. design a font

Long Term (at end of career)
1. own two big dogs, at the same time
2. if I have kids, then have more than two
3. fly in a hot air balloon
4. hang-glide
5. have lived in at least 5 new cities (not in Belarus or Spain) one of which can be NYC
6. own a store selling cool art
7. have a life partner
8. be a pet masseuse